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Peter Crockford
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Assistant Professor at Carleton University
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I am extremely honoured to have been awarded a 2025 Sloan Fellowship. A huge thank you to the Sloan foundation for their support and to my mentors for getting me here.
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/...
New Paper on Sturtian Barite!

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Mantle-like Sr isotopes in a Sturtian cap carbonate in Oman | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
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June 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
New Paper

Depositional Controls on ∆′17O Signatures of Sedimentary Sulfate - Crockford - 2025 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Thanks to all of the folks who helped this over the finish line.
Depositional Controls on ∆′17O Signatures of Sedimentary Sulfate
Sulfate triple oxygen isotope signatures are most consistent with terrestrial pyrite oxidation and subsequent dilution Depositional environment must be considered in the translation of sulfate ∆′...
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June 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Reposted by Peter Crockford
May 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Reposted by Peter Crockford
🌊🧪Job Alert!!! @oceannetworks.ca is looking for a Chief Executive Officer. Come join us at the University of Victoria 🇨🇦

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Ocean Networks Canada hiring Chief Executive Officer in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 11:14:22 PM. Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading, not-for-profit organization that supports ocean…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Reposted by Peter Crockford
Paper alert 🚨 Interaction of metal oxyions with carbonate green rust in seawater is out now! This is one of the few papers that investigated metal uptake with GRCO3 in seawater and conducted 1 year aging experiments! Link here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #biogeochemistry #metal #greenrust
Interaction of metal oxyions and phosphate with carbonate green rust: Insights into Earth’s modern and ancient environments
Carbonate green rust (GRCO3) is often found in suboxic and anoxic environments, and is known to be highly reactive towards dissolved metals and other …
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April 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I am extremely honoured to have been awarded a 2025 Sloan Fellowship. A huge thank you to the Sloan foundation for their support and to my mentors for getting me here.
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/...
February 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Peter Crockford
Experimental Snowball Earth Viscosity Drives the Evolution of Motile Multicellularity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.06.579218v1
Experimental Snowball Earth Viscosity Drives the Evolution of Motile Multicellularity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.06.579218v1
During the 70-million-year span of the Cryogenian Snowball Earth glaciations, low ocean temperatures
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February 9, 2024 at 3:36 AM
New Paper! “The Geologic History of Primary Productivity”
With Itay Halevy, Ron Milo, Yinon Bar On and Luce Ward

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Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1KoXa...

And featured in the New York Times!

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The geologic history of primary productivity
The rate of primary productivity is a keystone variable in driving biogeochemical cycles today and has been throughout Earth’s past.1 For example, it …
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December 13, 2023 at 3:32 AM